Goooood morning guys and girls, New month! Enjoy it! Busy morning for me already. Did 30min of UB strength (pyramid style), followed by a 3K (test)run on the TM. First run on the TM since late March. Wasn't looking forward to it, but totally enjoyed myself. Kids complained that I was singing along LOL. Time for them to get up anyway. R-foot seems OK. Ofcourse, it was only 3K. Finished with a 20min LB strength w/o. In between I did two laundry loads. I'm probably the only runner in the world who does laundry between working out Have a lovely Monday and a most excellent run.

Rest Day. Perfesser - get any snow yet?

Just got back from a trip and, we have flurries, but it's not sticking. Still having the back problems but with the miracle of Aleve it's getting better. And I guess it's giving my leg more recovery time too. Yay.

Trey: I've been leaving work an hour earlier for the past two days. It's much busier on the bikepaths and the creep isn't there. If there's anything I need to finish for work, I'll do it from home. Better be save, right? The men having back problems? How come? I did a 45min of UB strength training. Followed by an amazing run on the TM. I'd planned 30min in all. Increasing time running to see how my R-foot would hold up. Started off with 15min@9K/h with the same Xmas cd I played Monday. Time flew by! Honestly. Then did 10min@9.5K. Would I dare run 10K/h? Ofcourse! So did 5min@10K. That was the 30min I had planned, but I needed a cool down and my R-foot was fine. Why not run another 5min@9.5K. After that decided on 5min@9.0K to finish the run. Total of 40min and 6.2K. But by then I was running in sync with the music. How could I stop now?! Next song, I was still in sync with the music. So I kept on going. Third song again my feet pounded the tread right along with the beat. Perfect running. All the way to the end of the cd: 48min precisely, according to the TM. 47:48 according to the cd. And 7.4K in all (says the TM). BTW, I logged it as a tempo run. Should I log it differently? R-foot is absolutely fine. Anyone dare to guess what's going on with that foot of mine? Anyways, finished with 20min of LB strength training: lunges, (plie)squats, deadlifts and calf raises. Managed a really short standing stretch before sprinting thru the shower cause these guys were coming to deliver und hang shutters in my kitchen in 15 minutes.

I managed two miles on the dreadmill, still some pain on my left footfall, and radiating down to my hip, but it's getting slowly better.

Well, I'm going to make 1000 miles this year, but that's about it. I'm psyching myself to hit it really hard on January 1st to get to 2000K next year. There's a 10K Resolution Run (NOT a race) on New Year's Day that I'm planning on doing. Maybe I can get ahead of the bunny from the start!

Me either - not 1000 miles. Oh well. There's always something: life, injuries, work, illness...glad to be running though. Cheers

Don't think I'll catch the bunny this year. I was doing so well and was on pace for 1300 miles this year and then the injury set me back and then a lot of other things came up. I think I might still hit 1200 which was my original goal, average 100 miles a month. I was pretty bummed about not catching the bunny for a while but I've gotten over it and I think it was a decent first full year of running.

Happy Sinterklaas everyone, Will celebrate with friends tonight. My boys have outgrown it ofcourse, but my friend has a little girl and they didn't mind going there. Wish I new how to put a pic in. But here's a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas Did 30 min UB endurance strength this morning. My muscles were feeling rather tired... And 25 min of LB enduance strength training. Plus abs. My obliques were a little sore since I did Yee's AM yoga twists section yesterday. Guess it means I should do it more often.